Costa Rica seeks to provide identity cards for indigenous people, as an attempt to eradicate statelessness. Many indigenous people do not register the birth of their children, and many women give birth in remote areas. Since 2014, approximately 5,000 people in Costa Rica and Panama have received birth certificates.

Indigenous people transcend the Panama/Costa Rica border every year, in order to work in the coffee plantations, which has created a group of stateless people. Many women have children in rural areas and many do not register the birth of their children. Costa Rica seeks to eradicate statelessness by 2014.